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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bath and North East Somerset Council. Also known as B&NES, BathNES and BANES.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bath and North East Somerset website
71,457 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Grove Cottage, Valley View Road, Charlcombe, Bath, BA1 8DJ
Received 14 May 1996193 Park Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1AU
Received 7 May 1996Charlcombe Grove Farm, Access Road To Ravenswell House, Charlcombe, Bath, BA1 9BQ
Received 14 May 1996Thyme Cottage, Lansdown, Bath
Received 14 May 19962 Redwood Close, Radstock, BA3 3EH
Received 15 May 1996Mycott, Upper Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, BS39 5TE
Received 15 May 1996101 Dovers Park, Bathford, Bath, BA1 7UE
Received 15 May 1996Sedbrook Farm, Hinton Blewett, Temple Cloud, Bristol
Received 16 May 1996The Spangles, High Street, Pensford, Bristol, BS39 4HN
Received 16 May 199637 North Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2QB
Received 16 May 199627 Longfellow Road, Radstock, BA3 3YZ
Received 16 May 19967 Westview, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7XJ
Received 17 May 1996Site At Coombend Coach Works, Coombend, Radstock
Received 16 May 1996The Paddock, Providence Place, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2LD
Received 15 May 19967 High Street, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7NW
Received 17 May 1996Red Post Inn, Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, BA2 8JH
Received 16 May 1996Red Post Inn, Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, BA2 8JH
Received 16 May 199630 Bath Road, Peasedown St. John, BA2 8DJ
Received 20 May 1996Charmydown House, Gloucester Road, Swainswick, Bath, BA1 8AD
Received 16 May 1996Mendip View, Main Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BJ
Received 17 May 1996The Paddock, Culver Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, BS40 6AE
Received 17 May 1996Stowey Bungalow, Goldcross, Pensford, Bristol, BS39 4DL
Received 20 May 199631 Riverside Close, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2NT
Received 20 May 1996Carlingcott House, 112 New Buildings, Peasedown St. John, BA2 8LB
Received 15 May 1996Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bath and North East Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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